"Level 5 Demon Beast!"

Yuan Ming's gaze swept toward the octopus, his eyes slightly narrowed.

The octopus's head seemed to have just noticed Lei Yu, momentarily stunned, then its body rapidly inflated, nearly tripling in size in an instant. Immediately afterward, the abyssal mouth hidden beneath it suddenly opened, revealing rings of sharp giant teeth.

From the wide-open maw, it spewed a dense dark green mist that quickly spread hundreds of zhang, enveloping Lei Yu.

Where it passed, the void was filled with "puff puff" sounds, accompanied by a strong stench of decay.

The range of the dark green poisonous fog was too vast, and Lei Yu's speed was swift, leaving no time to evade, plunging directly into it.

As it rushed into the Black Mist, a sharp pain seared its eyes, unbearable, forcing them shut. Attempting to rely on Divine Thought to discern direction, it found that the Divine Thought was disturbed by the dark green poisonous fog, rendering it unable to detect anything.

At the same time, its feathers, tougher than iron, rapidly corroded under the mist's erosion.

On Lei Yu's back, the array protecting Nan Shangfeng was also continuously emitting white smoke under the fog's erosion, barely holding on.

Nan Shangfeng felt a dry throat and instinctively sought Yuan Ming's figure, but could see him nowhere.

Just then, a sharp sword cry rang out from the void ahead.

A sword light, like the dawn sun, tore through the shrouding poisonous fog, reopening a line of light for the world.

Following that, raging Sword Qi rolled like a Flood Dragon, thoroughly dispersing the poisonous fog, revealing the dim yet clear sky once more.

Standing on Lei Yu's head, Yuan Ming held the Exterminating Immortal Sword.

As for the octopus demon beast, it had already been cleaved in two by a single sword strike, its unveiled top of the skull falling away into the distance.

"Truly heroic..." Nan Shangfeng sighed in relief and couldn't help but praise.

"Continue onward." Yuan Ming took the Demon Core and shouted aloud.

Lei Yu used demonic power to heal the body eroded by the poison fog and continued forward.

However, before it could fly out half a ke, the sea surface's winds and waves suddenly turned violent, sweeping the heavens with a foul stench of sea breeze, with countless dark currents and vortices appearing on the dim sea surface.

Rows of nearly hundred-zhang-high waves rose in succession, clashing with thunderous roars, splattering countless water droplets like a torrential downpour.

Suddenly, dark clouds gathered above, with bright lightning slithering through.

Yuan Ming focused his eyesight, scanning around, and was astonished to find that not only their sea area displayed such behavior, but even the entire sea within hundreds of li was engulfed in such whirlpools and storm waves.

"We must leave this sea area at once. This isn't just an ordinary sea storm!" Nan Shangfeng urgently said, with a tinge of panic in his voice.

Yuan Ming returned to Lei Yu's back, inquiring, "Do you know what's going on?"

"This is the fabled Heavenly Sea Reverse Thunder Flow, rarely seen in the Dongji Sea Area once in a century, yet we've encountered it." Nan Shangfeng said bitterly.

"Heavenly Sea Reverse Thunder Flow?" Yuan Ming hadn't heard of it before.

"It's a unique phenomenon in the Dongji Sea, where sea water reverses upwards, and lightning descends from above, intertwining together. The exact causes are unknown, but it's extremely dangerous. Even Dharma Phase Cultivators struggle to cope once caught in it!" Nan Shangfeng's knowledge was limited to this.

"Lei Yu, increase speed!" Yuan Ming's expression changed drastically, shouting loudly.

Lei Yu flapped its wings in swift flight, reaching maximum speed, yet the vast ahead sea area still loomed, unable to escape the danger zone.

At that moment, resounding "boom boom" sounds exploded from the sea floor.

It was as if countless cannons were bombarding the sky from the sea floor, with massive waterspouts rising forth from the sea whirlpools, like twisting Black Dragons, shooting straight into the clouds.

These massive waterspout columns, filled with terrifying power, tore through the dark clouds above, piercing through like spears.

Almost simultaneously, lightning fell from above, entwining around the water columns, turning the water spears into thunder spears.

Lei Yu hurriedly maneuvered through the gaps formed by the waterspouts, narrowly avoiding the violent impact.

In its eyes suddenly reflected a firelight, a glow that emerged from the waterspout.

Lei Yu was startled, intending to unleash Divine Skills to attack, when Yuan Ming's voice rang out: "Focus on dodging the impact of the waterspouts, don't concern yourself with anything else."

Immediately, it saw that Yuan Ming's figure was already blocking one side.

Within the waterspout, a grotesque, hideous and bloated fish demon appeared, with a large lantern-like globe hanging from the antenna atop its head, glowing with a fierce red light.

In the next moment, the bright red glow expanded dramatically, turning into a fiercely burning Fireball, bursting through the water wall, heading towards Yuan Ming fiercely.

Yuan Ming raised his hand and grabbed in the void, manipulating a stream of water to coalesce in the air, directly enveloping the Fireball.

However, even encountering water, the Fireball didn't extinguish and still flew towards him.

Yuan Ming's eyebrows slightly furrowed, his palm suddenly clenched, instantly bursting the ball of flames with a powerful force.

The sound of the Fireball explosion rang out, scattering countless sparks, disturbing the demon beasts lurking within the waterspouts.

Afterward, within each water tornado, countless blazing red lanterns lit up, all aimed at Yuan Ming.

Yuan Ming sighed inwardly, knowing that it was impossible to avoid and pass through smoothly.

Chasing after Lei Yu, he swiftly flew ahead, and upon seeing countless fireballs approaching from all directions, he raised a hand and struck it toward the void.

In the next instant, above him, dark light erupted from the sky, a massive black palm emerged out of thin air, overshadowing the sky, and pressed down, stirring up circles of black light waves, pressing downward.

The Great Black Sky God Palm emitted a brilliance that instantly engulfed nearly all the fireballs, easily extinguishing them.

Several sturdy surrounding water tornadoes were also shattered by the palm print.

Witnessing this, Yuan Ming's expression showed no signs of relief, as more demon creatures from the sea bottom had locked onto them.

Lei Yu responded with a bright scream, flapping its wings sharply and flying away towards the distance, finally escaping the Heavenly Sea Reverse Thunder Flow area.

Yuan Ming then flew back onto its back and checked his injuries, finding them not serious, he slightly relaxed and turned to look at the chaotic sea area behind them.

At this moment, it was completely dark, the sea region where the water tornadoes shot up seemed like demon dragons twisting their bodies, obscured by torrential rain, becoming hazy and unclear.

Within the curtain of rain, those two glaring scarlet lanterns stayed at the edge for a while and then slowly retreated.

"What is that thing?" Nan Shangfeng stretched his neck looking towards that direction, asking nervously.

"I don't know, but the demon aura is not weak, at least level six, maybe even... level seven." Yuan Ming silently exhaled a turbid breath, waved his hand to retract the array, and sat down beside him.

"Fortunately, that thing didn't chase after us." Nan Shangfeng said with a change of expression, feeling relieved.

Yuan Ming didn't speak again, closing his eyes to begin breathing control.

Nan Shangfeng also closed his mouth, gazing far into the black sea, lost in thought.

...

Late at night.

Lei Yu carried the two of them soaring above the clouds, under the pitch-black sky dotted with stars, a solitary moon cast a cold light, everything was silent, except for the howling wind, there were no other sounds.

Nan Shangfeng sat bored, looking at Yuan Ming who was meditating and cultivating beside him, wanting to say something but dared not disturb, feeling slightly hesitant.

But at this moment, Yuan Ming suddenly opened his eyes abruptly, his gaze flashing with brilliance, startling Nan Shangfeng.

"Wha... what happened?" he asked instinctively.

"There's a demon coming." Yuan Ming spoke while standing up and focused straight ahead.

Nan Shangfeng also jolted awake and climbed up, widening his eyes, looking toward the distance.

A moment later, aided by the moonlight's clear glow, he saw a large shadow flying rapidly over, and his expression changed instantly.

"Why are they coming again? We're really unlucky!" Nan Shangfeng lamented bitterly.

Yuan Ming said nothing, raised his hand, and once again threw the array plate, releasing an array that protected Nan Shangfeng in the center.

Then, he turned his wrist, firmly grasped the Exterminating Immortal Sword, and leaped off Lei Yu's back, transforming into a stream of light rushing forward.

A thousand feet away, a group of hundreds of giant blue-feathered birds approached in formation, seeing someone rush them, they opened their mouths and emitted waves of cries.

Amidst the shrill cries, there were intense Divine Soul waves, condensing in the void into layers of sound waves, overwhelming like sea waves, attacking.

Yuan Ming turned his direction, diving into the sea of sound waves, immediately feeling a stinging pain in his eardrums followed by a wave of dizziness.

His eyes narrowed, and divine soul power surged out, instantly dispelling all abnormal sensations.

His Divine Soul was like an indestructible reef, unmoved despite the continuous waves crashing against it.

At this moment, the approaching giant birds flapped their wings fiercely, fanned against Yuan Ming, and from beneath their feathers, green wind blades surged out, interwoven as they attacked.

The gale howled like a dense net of blades descending, shredding the clouds in the high sky.

Yuan Ming brandished his long sword, countless sword lights bursting forth, intermingling with the net of blades, filling the air with a continuous "clang" as wind blades were shredded by the sword light.

Yuan Ming's figure pierced through like a stream of light, crashing into the flock of giant birds.

In the next instant, the mournful cries of the giant birds resounded through the sky, as one after another, their bodies were torn apart by crisscrossing sword light, turning into countless pieces amid the blood rain and plummeting down.

Just then, a sharp piercing sound suddenly reached his ears, extraordinarily sharp.

This sound was completely different from before, carrying an extremely strong penetrative force, directly bypassing Yuan Ming's Divine Soul defense, like a steel knife, directly stabbing into his Sea of Consciousness.

While fervently slaying the giant birds, Yuan Ming was caught off guard, feeling his brain "buzz" into ringing, tumbling down from the sky.

(Dear fellow daoists, it's almost New Year, there are more matters at Wang Yu's home, many social obligations, thus during the Spring Festival, the update speed can only slow down, starting today for a week, there will be only one update per day. Wang Yu here wishes everyone a happy New Year and all the best ^^)

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